COVID-19 is killing over twice as many Black Americans as whites, new report says

PHILADELPHIA — Black individuals are nearly three times as likely to contract COVID-19 and twice as likely to die from the virus, compared to white individuals, according to a new report by the National Urban League. Researchers have struggled to measure with precision the race gaps in COVID-19 because much of the early data reported by hospitals did not include information about patients’ race — as of early August, Pennsylvania has reported race data for about half of its cases. But the National Urban League’s State of Black America report adds to a growing body of research that has found the ...

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